erik lundegaard

Tuesday December 01, 2009

Lancelot Links

  • “Star Wars” Facebook status updates from collegehumor.com. The first one had me laughing out loud.
  • The best reason to sneak popcorn into the movies isn't the price of theater popcorn. It's this.
  • I haven't seen “Nine” yet, which opens this month, so can't comment on Jeffrey Wells' assertion that Marion Cotillard's acting, while fine, and perhaps deserving of the Oscar nom the producers of the film are pushing, is actually better in Michael Mann's “Public Enemies.” But his posting of this scene made me want to watch “Public Enemies” all over again. There's a frantic and frivolous quality to modern life, and Mann, by slowing the tempo of his films, by focusing on the essential—on the details of the details of the details, as Johnny Depp once said—actually relieves us for a time of this burden, of the unbearable lightness of being. He makes things matter. That aspect is in this scene and every scene. And that's part of why I want to see the movie again. The bigger reason is that some people caused a ruckus at the theater where I saw the film at the end of June and I ended up missing some of Cotillard's better moments. Wells is right right about this one, though. Man.

Posted at 07:11 AM on Tuesday December 01, 2009 in category Lancelot Links  
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